文档介绍：ENGLISH GRAMMAR
This new edition of Downing and Locke’s award-winning text-book has been thoroughly
revised and rewritten by Angela Downing to offer an integrated account of structure,
meaning and function in relation to context. Also used as a reference book, it provides
the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics,
stylistics, reading and discourse studies. It is accessible and reader-friendly throughout.
Key features include:
• Chapters divided into modules of class-length materials
• Each new concept clearly explained and highlighted
• Authentic texts from a wide range of sources, both spoken and written, to illustrate
grammatical usage
• Clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and
student revision
• Exercises and topics for individual study
• Answer key for analytical exercises
• Comprehensive index
• Select bibliography
• Suggestions for further reading
This up-to-date, descriptive grammar is plete course for first degree and post-
graduate students of English, and is particularly suitable for those whose native language
is not English.
Angela Downing is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and
Linguistics (English Philology I) at the plutense, Madrid.
The late Philip Locke taught at the Institute of Modern Languages and Translation at
the plutense, Madrid.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
A University Course
Second edition
Angela Downing and Philip Locke
First published 1992
by Prentice Hall International (UK) Ltd
Routledge edition published 2002 by Routledge
This second edition published 2006
by Routledge
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© 2006 Angela Downing and Philip Locke
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.
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